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Signal's Meredith Whittaker says AI agents doing tasks on users' behalf pose security and privacy risks and refers to their use as “putting your brain in a jar”. (www.youtube.com)
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[–] [email protected] -3 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Why Signal is not in f-droid? Is there a statement from them about it? What I know is only in Google store . And talking to much about privacy and not being in a f-droid repo, is ironic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

actually, years ago there was a long drawn out drama about people in Signal's team refusing to publish on F-Droid because of "security concerns" in Moxie's time. IIRC they worked to take down builds on the main repo

you can probably still find the old github threads with the lenghty discussions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I didn't know, Thanks for the info . Well nowadays f-droid is a standard for privacy . They should reconsider

[–] [email protected] 17 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

It's available on F-droid through the Guardian Project repo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Yes that's correct, is listed in guardian project but with big red flags anti-featires, heavy thetered services with Google

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

since when? that's good news to me!

the alternatives seem to be Molly on the main repo and Signal-FOSS on TwinHelix's

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Showed up maybe a month ago?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

I've just seen it. I suppose Signal-FOSS has the same signature, since I can choose between the two repos on its F-Droid panel

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

They also offered their .apk directly through their site with an included downloader last I checked, but I would love it to on f-droid

[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago

Add Guardian Project repo. It's there.